Ernest Boyd (1887–1946)

Ernest Augustus Boyd (28 June 1887–30 December 1946), writer, journalist, and literary critic, was born at Westbury Terrace, Dublin.

After a period on the staff of the Irish Times (1910–13) he joined the British consular service in 1913. His first posting was as vice-consul to Baltimore, Maryland, where he became friendly with H. L. Mencken, about whom he later wrote a book; he was transferred to Barcelona in 1916 and Copenhagen in 1919.

A contributor to the Irish Review, Irish Monthly, and Revue de Paris, he was also a literary adviser to the Talbot Press.

Having resigned from the consular service, he settled in New York in 1920 and worked on the editorial staff and as a writer for various publications, and became adviser on foreign literature to the publishers Alfred A. Knopf and Blanche Knopf.
Dictionary of Irish Biography.